A mutual misunderstanding.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

It takes a day to fall in love and a lifetime to forget.

To say that Agatha Christie’s characters are cardboard cut-outs is an insult to cardboard cut-outs.

I love the idea that if you're going to travel through time, you do it in this insanely dangerous car travelling at 88 miles per hour.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

If you had to eat another human to survive, do you think they'd taste like their ethnic background?

As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.

Setting goals can blind you to opportunities. You might be trying to get to point C. When opportunity B comes, you don't even look at it because you're going straight to C.

There are many ways to drown, only the most obvious wave their arms as they're going under.

A heart given to God loses none of its natural tenderness; on the contrary, the more pure and divine it becomes, the more such tenderness increases.

If western culture is shown to be rich it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to "dissolve" harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.